The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-07-01
About Early Marriages.


she notices ''serous intentions" rs far
as she can see them. and the old lady
feels aa though something was going to
happen. either an elopement, or we'd
ding on the sly. which will have to be
explained by and by. She says her
girl is seventeen, and the young fellow
who has the symptoms is twenty, and
works at bookkeeping, and is very
highly spoken OF by his employer,
lhobgh the young fellow has only
small salary to support wife. She
Says the young couple have been going
together year, and she never saw
couple that thought more OF each other.
They consult each others wishes like
old married folks, and he is just as ten
der of her as though she was his wife,
and they discuss the probable expense
OF any amusement they may intend in
lulging in, and if the girl thinks the
Young man cannot afford to indulge in
ANYTHING, she tells him so frankly, and
he thinks the thing over and gives 1t up
cheerfully. The grl is not asham-
ed to tell her young man that she
makes her own dresses, and she sprung
new twenty-dollar spring hat on
him few days ago. which she had
bought the frame for sixty cents, and
the ribbons and flowers for II dollar and
half, and trimmed it herself. The
old lady saws she has been brought up to
discourage early marriages, but she
has in her time seen SO many
cary marriages that have turned
out splendldly, and sol many
late ones that have made hell upon
earth for those who have married. and
all their friends, that she is almost in
clned to weaken, and let nature take
its course, though she would like to
have the advice of the The san before
she commits herself, so she can have
somebody else to lay part of the
blame TO ii the affair turns out to be Il
mistake, after the young folks are
married. Well, it is going to be
cholera and yellow fever season, any
way, and we might as we'll take hand
in this affair, and If it don't turn out
all right. it can be laid to the germs
and microbes in the air. The proper
ton of early marriages which turn
out we'll are as great as the proper
ton of late marriages. But it
all depends on the persons who mar
ry. If young fellow is an IDIOT and
a girl is fool, and they do not show
any appreciation of what the marriage
relation is liable to bring them in the
way of responsibilities, sickness, hard
work, etc, and only seem to think that
life is going to be hugging and kiss
ing match, and they begin to talk about
marrying, they should be dubbed, or
kept in separate cages. They should
marry late, and the later the better, be-
cause If they marry late they will not
be so apt to help populate the country
with driveling idiots like themselves.
If a young man who spends his salary
recklessly. and more too, who does not
know the value of money. and who
runs in debt as easy as rolling log of,
thinks he has fallen in love with girl,
who has got no sense, and who cares
more for dress and outside show than
she does for home, and who does not
care whether the fellow who says he
loves her has a dollar, or owes thous-
and, and such gang as that begin to
talk of going to see q minister, that
young man ought to be kicked out OF
the girls house. and sent to the reform
school at Waukesha, while the girl
should be quarantined at the same kind
of school at Sparta, for il they mar
~ the chances are that the man will
desert the girl when she is sick, and
when she becomes well again she will
tell him to go to the devil, and both
will go wrong. and her parents will
reap sorrow. But there are cases where
a girl of eighteen is better qualified to
become the wife of deserving and
careful young m an of good habits and
honor. than many who are older. If
such couple marry, though they may
be compelled to "skip along" for a
good many years, they will attract the
attention of older people who are ad-
mirers of true worth. and before they
know it they will have overcome diff
culties, accumulated enough to make